Re: 2.4.11: mount flag noexec still broken for VFAT partition

Marko Kreen (marko@l-t.ee)
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:36:10 +0200


On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:13:33PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2001 23:01 +0300, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> > Similary as with 2.4.10 mount flag noexec does not work for VFAT
> > partition. I have following in fstab
> >
> > /dev/hda1 /c vfat noexec,gid=201,umask=002,quiet 1 0
> > /dev/hda5 /d vfat noexec,gid=201,umask=002,quiet 1 0
> >
> > but I see that all files in corresponding filesystems are still
> > exectuable
>
> Probably because your uid or gid match the above, so your access permission
> is done by checking "user" or "group" and not "other". Try "umask=113"
> instead.

Um. 'noexec' does not touch flags, it only disallows exec'ing
on particular mountpoint. So Andris, have you tried executing
anything on those partitions?

umask also sets directory permissions, so with umask=113 you
cant acces any dirs there...

-- 
marko

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